USB Boot Fails.

[Guest]

Hi.
Have added all the right components and set BIOS to USB Flash but always get
hard boot failure on a blue screen.
Have tried both running FBA from USB and making a run image first on a hard
drive and then copying to USB stick. Neither work. The help files on FE2007
do nothing to help. Any ideas please.
Thanks.
Graham.

 

[Sean Liming \(MVP\)]

What are the BIOS options set to when the USB flash drive is plugged in? Is
there an emulation mode for hard drive?

http://www.sjjmicro.com/Docs/USB 2 Flash Boot.pdf

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Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit

 

[Guest]

It's a VIA M series Mb with first boot device set to USB Flash.
Graham.

 

[Sean Liming \(MVP\)]

The VIA M series' bios doesn't support USB hard disk emulatation, thus XPe
cannot boot from USB on the system. I have asked VIA to update the BIOS, but
they are more focussed on the newer C7 boards.

The new EX and I believe EK have support in the BIOS to boot XPe via USB
flash disk.

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Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit

 

[Guest]

Thanks for that info Sean. I had previously tried the EN15000 which did not
work but was not sure why.
We make products for the visually impaired and need to find a low cost
Mother board solution which has only 3 components Sapi5 a RS232 and Printer
port and can boot from USB. If there are any ideas of such MB I would be very
grateful.
Thanks
Regards Graham.

 

[Sean Liming \(MVP\)]

I had a EPIA EX 15000G that supported booting XPe from USB.

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Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit